Humans in civilizations know they are depraved.\u00a0 They are always trying to turn back, to recapture the Lebenswelt in which we evolved, by formulating systems that will allow us to \u201cBe Born Again\u201d.\u00a0 These formulations offer the promise of a return to a world where we all belong, where we all believe, where uncertainty and risk is shared by all, where each gets according to her needs, where each gives according to her abilities, where each person knows what to do and why she is here, where everyone\u2019s voice has importance, where differences are perceived as commonalities, and so on and so on.<\/p>\n
Luther\u2019s descriptions of Original Sin, to me, amazingly capture the \u201csensibilities\u201d of modern ideologues.\u00a0 Some of these ideologues did not grasp for sovereign power, forming communities that were separatist and later, trapped in the time in which they were formed, like the Amish and the Hippies.\u00a0 Some of these ideologues grasped for sovereign power, in order to facilitate the Baptism – the Baptism of Blood \u2013 of new social orders.<\/p>\n
The Modern Era invented new ways of talking.\u00a0 As a result, almost all cultures and civilizations have been Born Again, either by withdrawal or by blood. \u00a0\u00a0In this way, Modernism itself re-enacts this weird parallel between the transition to speech-alone talk and the concept of Original Sin.<\/p>\n
Luther\u2019s definitions even capture the topsy-turvy character of Modernity.\u00a0\u00a0 For example, the situation of \u201cacts of unbelief\u201d has mutated.\u00a0 In Progressivism, the phrase \u201cthe Constitution is a Dead Letter\u201d, is \u201can act of unbelief\u201d in a symbolic framework where \u201cthe Constitution is a Living Document\u201d.<\/p>\n
Various Modernisms detached Luther\u2019s variation of Original Sin from its moorings in Christianity and, in doing so, literally brought his definitions to life.\u00a0 All aspects of his formalism have been re-interpreted in the vain attempt to return to the Source.<\/p>\n
Luther\u2019s variation on Original Sin was:<\/p>\n
Need to be Born Again(acts of unbelief(flawed faculties \u201cof nature\u201d)<\/p>\n
It is almost as if Luther\u2019s voice was the voice of Eve as depicted in An Archaeology of the Fall<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Humans in civilizations know they are depraved.\u00a0 They are always trying to turn back, to recapture the Lebenswelt in which we evolved, by formulating systems that will allow us to \u201cBe Born Again\u201d.\u00a0 These formulations offer the promise of a return to a world where we all belong, where we all believe, where uncertainty and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n